Reblog If Your Blog Is An Lgbtq+ Safe Zone

If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. I’m disabled, I’m crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives aren’t working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.

Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.

We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.

The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.

Communicate better. Listen better. But stop putting us out in the cold because you are inconvenienced by our simplest needs.

°Maybe CJ was starting to relax a little, maybe, as he sat here with a cat that was full of secrets and in a house with too many lights on, maybe he didn't feel as bad as he had at first. Maybe, slowly, he was convincing himself that traffic was bad and that RJ was a by-the-rules guy when it came to driving.°

°But somewhere he knew his brother would have texted at a red light, or if things were at a standstill he would have said something. Recent events might have drained his usual energy to a degree, but he knew his brother. He would have said something, right? Jim would be ok. He would be. And they were going to watch something soft when he got home, after cat stuff set up was done. There would be popcorn again and even if he couldn't use his telescope it would be just like their usual movie nights.°

°That reminds him, it's the last full moon of the 2010s tonight, maybe they could see it together, just briefly, before going back inside. Could show the cat too. It sounded nice to him, he just wished RJ would say something..°

*His head felt like it had been hit by a truck, and there was both a weird fog and a jolting fear in his chest, but a groan escaped him and solidified it. He was awake... Mostly. What had he been dreaming about..? There was a magic show and there was rain... And alot of eyes....*

*Not important. What was probably important was how much his head and side hurt, he get hit by a bus?*

*He hear, something, like a small gasp, and he manages to turn his head a little. He squints, Jim- suddenly he's surrounded by a gentle but intense hug, if that made any sense. His arms feel like lead still, and even with it being gentle the hug still hurts- but it's home and he leans in.*

*It's CJ, it's Jim, it's ok.*

Hey, Hey, Jims! Trans rights?

"Oh heck yeah!"

°CJ adjusts the camera and signs, spelling out a-b-s-o-f-k-i-n-g-l-u-t-e-l-y°

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(Hello Jims, I'm here for this: 👁️🌟💛🔥🙃🌌🎇👀❤️🦕 Seems like your gonna get enlightened, then do something that accidentally causes a disaster, but soon it goes back to normal, your seen, and people love the dinosaurs you managed to bring back (Which was the disaster, probably). That- I'm not sure how to respond, but hopefully this isn't Jurassic Park.)

(∆At least it workes out in the end- any ending with dinosaurs is a good ending unless there are only dinosaurs left, thanks for the reading!∆)

((*pats for the Jims and their mun*))

*Although there is slight confusion on the sudden-ness of the pats, overall the siblings seem to appreciate it well enough.*

∆*The Mun accepts pats and gives a muffin in return.*∆

Hey, how are you two doing? -Neb

"I think all things considered we're ok?"

°a small nod°

"We're alive and going still despite the chaos growing in these last few, so that's us. Going to make one heck of a story once it's all said and done I can say that!"

°No kidding, seems like we have stumbled into something far bigger than we thought...°

"Yeah... still rolling, Jim?"

°...Always, Jim°

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